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Stacy Gastelum

San Diego,CA

Summary

Experienced UX Design Leader with 20+ years in strategic planning, product innovation, and leading global teams. Skilled in facilitating user-focused workshops, simplifying complex issues, and using data to improve user experiences. Focused on advancing design strategies that center on user needs and cross-functional collaboration.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

User Experience Design Strategist (Master)

HP
San Diego, United States
03.2021 - Current

Responsible for defining and deploying a comprehensive setup and onboarding strategy, and AI scan experience for HP Printer Home and Small Biz portfolio.

  • Developed setup and onboarding Northstar vision and strategic blueprints that bridge physical and digital customer journeys for multi-platform hardware and software, resulting in over 95% user satisfaction.
  • Defined the innovative HP AI scan experience by identifying key user needs and leveraging data insights, using effective storytelling to highlight product opportunities to senior leadership.
  • Led both on-site and remote UX workshops with leadership stakeholders and partners, achieving cross-organizational alignment on goals to maximize user satisfaction and business performance.
  • Optimized design operations, clarified the product roadmap, and improved collaboration between design, product, and development teams.

UX Director - Mobile Platform & Solutions: Knox Enterprise Solutions, Samsung Pay, XR

Samsung Research America
Mountain View, CA
03.2018 - 03.2021

A key design partner collaborating with multiple global business and engineering leaders across Samsung Enterprise solutions, Samsung Pay, and XR (AR/VR) projects.

  • Managed a global UX team that consisted of UX/UI designers, UX researchers, 3D designers, and prototype developers.
  • Elevated cross-org UX maturity with data-driven UX frameworks and defined UX success measurements.
  • Achieved over 6% increase in conversion rate for Samsung Knox
  • Launched the "mobile-first" Samsung Pay initiative: Samsung Money by SoFi (US).

UX Manager | Head of Design, Global B2B UX

Samsung Research America
Mountain View, California
03.2017 - 03.2018

Experience design owner for a large-scale Samsung Knox enterprise solution suite. (Web console, cloud services, and mobile app)

  • Unified Samsung Knox experience with a scalable design system for the Knox platform,
  • Instrumented the 'Design Thinking' process across the organization and expedited the launch timeline through strategic collaboration with global product and development teams.
  • Built a high-performing on-site UX team and managed distributed design teams with quarterly budget planning, performance management, and mentorship.

Design Lead | Sr. Staff 2 Interaction Designer

Samsung Research America
San Jose
08.2012 - 02.2017

Responsible for defining next-gen user experience for Samsung mobile services.

  • Led user-centric design initiatives with a small team of UX designers and researchers for various mobile core experiences: AI Voice Assistant, Samsung Milk Music, Contextual Mobile Launcher, Social Data Viz, Music, Photo Gallery, Smart Office, and AR Camera.
  • Shipped the Samsung Health actionable insights feature in the US and Korea.

UX - Interaction Designer, Android Products

Dell
07.2007 - 07.2012

Responsible for defining the design system (visual & interaction) for the Dell "Streak" mobile & tablet family.

  • Delivered UI design for Home launcher, Widgets, Gallery, and Call apps.

UX - Visual Designer

Zing
05.2005 - 07.2007

Responsible for creating visual design assets and conducting design QA.

  • Played a key role in the start-up. Launched award-winning "Sansa Connect", a Wi-Fi player, through collaboration with SanDisk. (ZING was acquired by Dell in 2007.)

Education

Course - Design Thinking and the Art of Innovation

Stanford University
12.2013

Master of Science - MS - Computer Science

Northwestern Polytechnic University
12.2003

Certificate - Graphic Design

De Anza College
12.2005

Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA -

Aletheia University-Taiwan
12.2000

Skills

  • User experience strategy
  • Design thinking facilitation
  • Cross-organizational alignment
  • Design leadership
  • Customer journey mapping
  • User experience research
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Design systems

Awards

  • A'Design Award Platinum - Samsung Milk Music
  • Samsung Gold Award - Milk Music
  • US Mobile & App Design Gold Award - Milk Music
  • Communication Arts/ Interactive Annual 21: Mobile - Milk Music
  • Best of CES 2007 - Sansa Connect

Patents

  • Electronic system with presentation mechanism and method of operation thereof (Samsung Milk Music)
  • Object management and visualization using a computing device (Samsung Gallery)
  • Event-based image management using clustering (Samsung Gallery)

Timeline

User Experience Design Strategist (Master)

HP
03.2021 - Current

UX Director - Mobile Platform & Solutions: Knox Enterprise Solutions, Samsung Pay, XR

Samsung Research America
03.2018 - 03.2021

UX Manager | Head of Design, Global B2B UX

Samsung Research America
03.2017 - 03.2018

Design Lead | Sr. Staff 2 Interaction Designer

Samsung Research America
08.2012 - 02.2017

UX - Interaction Designer, Android Products

Dell
07.2007 - 07.2012

UX - Visual Designer

Zing
05.2005 - 07.2007

Course - Design Thinking and the Art of Innovation

Stanford University

Master of Science - MS - Computer Science

Northwestern Polytechnic University

Certificate - Graphic Design

De Anza College

Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA -

Aletheia University-Taiwan